This is getting rediculous. I should just cancel my towerhobbies order and order from a bunch of other overseas vendors that have them in stock. I'd like to order from tower as they have been great in the past, but that's a long wait. I have basically all i need except the darn jet.

This is getting rediculous. I should just cancel my towerhobbies order and order from a bunch of other overseas vendors that have them in stock. I'd like to order from tower as they have been great in the past, but that's a long wait. I have basically all i need except the darn jet.

Yep. There are a ton of websites I wanted to order from but the overall cost with shipping will be more than Tower. That's the price I'll have to pay if I want it now. Robotbirds.com has the Kit AND the motor mount. Every other site I have checked has only had one or the other, or everything was out of stock. These website have the Kit and/or the mount in stock:

I would order from overseas if I could find them in stock where the site is in English.

Anyone know of one?

I spoke to Multiplex USA at the NEAT Fair. There's nothing they can do. The mother ship decided to keep the initial release local in case there were any problems. Last I heard they are on the slow boat.

P.S. Basically the ultra was made to the consumers response. Its made to go way faster without the trouble to spar the dam* thing all over. So now since its way more rigid than ever, it can take more of the CG abuse in the air with 1kw systems.

if you read, i said "with power system only" its only in the power system kit. NOT with the funjet. Ive done hours of homework on this.

Only way to get it in the air consistently is to throw it vertical - works every time . Look back in the thead for videos of the technique. I had less than a 50% success rate while throwing 'conventionally' but have yet to have a failure with the 'vertical' technique.

Issue is that from the launch you haven't got any air flowing over the control surfaces until it builds speed as the prop isn't pushing air over the model, just behind. As soon as she gets up some speed the torque effect isn't noticeable.

One nice trick is to cut the power, come down the runway low and pull vertical just in front of you - just as it stops climbing, power up to full and watch her spin. As she builds forward speed again the torque effect disappears as the screaming motor howls away . Of course you need more than 1:1 power/weight ratio but then I don't this model was designed for any less .

Im throwing it at about 30 degrees max, I put full right trim in then just trim it back to center once flying. Ive been launching it at 1/2 throttle to reduce torque roll and it still nearly rolls to inverted! Mine is a fairly light setup, maybe thats why its torque rolling so much?